# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T10:57:17.954Z

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name: "Baldwin I, Latin Emperor"
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description: "He led a crusade that veered catastrophically off-course, sacked Christianity's eastern capital, crowned himself emperor of the wreckage — then lost everything to a Bulgarian army within a year."
tagline: "Latin Emperor of Constantinople (1172 - c.1205)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1172"
deathDate: "1205"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Baldwin inherited Flanders in 1194 and Hainaut the next year, turning him into one of the Low Countries' most powerful lords. When the Fourth Crusade assembled, he joined as a leading commander, but the expedition never reached the Holy Land. In 1204 the crusaders stormed Constantinople instead, toppling the Byzantine Empire and carving out a new Latin state from its remains. Baldwin was elected its first emperor that May. The throne proved brief: in 1205 Kaloyan of Bulgaria crushed his army at Adrianople, took him captive, and Baldwin vanished into a Bulgarian prison, never seen again.